LINGUIST List 7.1082

Tue Jul 30 1996

Calls: Systemic Functional Linguistics, WCCFL-16

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <dseelyemunix.emich.edu>

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CALL FOR PAPERS:
24th International Systemic Functional Congress
July 21-25, 1997
Glendon College, York University, Toronto, Canada
Congress Theme
Learning how to mean: transdisciplinary perspectives on language in
context.
Communicating in contexts - the view from:
* systemic functional grammar
* primate communication
* language development in normal children
* language disorders
Purpose
The Congress will bring together graduate students and scholars in
linguistics, psychology, psychiatry, comparative primatology, philosophy,
ethnomusicology and anthropology with an interest in a functional view of
language and other semiotic modalities, such as gesture, gaze, sign
language, and visual images to make meanings in context.
* Papers in all disciplines will be considered.
* Morning plenaries will raise questions and issues about the Congress
theme.
* Afternoon workshops focusing on individual texts will continue the
discussion of issues raised in the plenaries.
* Invited Fellows, senior scholars in other disciplines along with Systemic
Functional linguists, will ensure that the workshops address the
transdisciplinary concerns of the Congress.
* A workgroup will be established to develop 'The Multi-Media Discourse
Analysis Handbook: A teaching and learning guide', which will focus on
the co-deployment of linguistic, gestural, and other semiotic modalities
in the making of meanings in discourse. The Handbook would develop in
explicit and workable ways the concerns of all the disciplines represented
at the Congress.
PAPERS:
Papers on any aspect of Systemic Functional Grammar or its application
will be considered, in addition to papers addressing the conference theme.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is November 15, 1996.
All papers will be 45 minutes in length including question time.
Attendance at the Congress is limited to around 200 delegates.
E-mail is preferred. Send abstracts to isfc97delphi.glendon.yorku.ca by
15 November 1996. If you do not have e-mail, send hard copy to ISFC97,
English Department, Glendon College, 2275 Bayview Avenue, Toronto ON,
Canada M4N 3M6. Do not fax your abstract.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of February 1997.
ABSTRACTS
Abstract should include the following information.
Surname:.......................................................
First Name(s):.................................................
Affiliation:...................................................
Mailing address: ..............................................
E-mail address: ...............................................
Title of Paper:................................................
Strand of Paper - choose one:
( ) computational
( ) lexicogrammar English
( ) lexicogrammar other
( ) discourse English
( ) discourse Other
( ) educational
( ) language development
( ) semiosis in language and other modalities
( ) language disorders and problems
( ) communication in the context of primates
( ) other - specify ............................................
INSERT ABSTRACT
(250 words approximately)
An earlier decision than February 1997 for institutional purposes
( ) yes ( ) no
Equipment required .......................................
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Fee: Cdn$180 before April 30, 1997
Fee: Cdn$200 after April 30, 1997
Room and board approximately Cdn$50 per day.
If you send an abstract you will automatically receive registration
details in February 1997. If you do not submit an abstract but want
registration information, you must let us know. If you do not contact us,
you will not receive further information.
E-mail: isfc97delphi.glendon.yorku.ca
or ISFC97, Department of English, Glendon College, 2275 Bayview Avenue,
Toronto ON, Canada,
M4N 3M6
WEB PAGE:
Look for up-to-date information about ISFC 97 on the Systemic Functional
Linguistics Web Page maintained by Mick O'Donnell -
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/staff/personal_pages/micko/systemics.html
ASSOCIATED EVENT:
Summer School of Systemic Functional Linguistics July 7-18, 1997
E-mail: isfc97delphi.glendon.yorku.ca
or ISFC97, Department of English, Glendon College, 2275 Bayview Avenue,
Toronto, Canada, M4N 3M6

First call:
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics XVI
The University of Washington, Seattle
February 28 - March 2, 1997
CALL FOR PAPERS!
Abstracts are invited for twenty minute talks in all areas of formal
linguistics from any theoretical perspective.
Please mail 10 (ten) copies of an anonymous abstract along with a 3"x 5"
card with paper title, name of author(s), affiliation, address, phone
number, e-mail address and, to facilitate the review process, primary area
of linguistics addressed in the paper. Abstracts should be no more
than one page with an additional page allowed for examples and references,
with all margins at least one inch wide, in at least 11-point
type. Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint
abstract per author. Please do not send abstracts by e-mail.
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is November 8, 1996.
Send abstracts to: WCCFL XVI Committee
Dept. of Linguistics
Box 354340
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
USA
For further information or answers to questions, please contact the wccfl
committee at the above address or e-mail wccflu.washington.edu